Smoking, socioeconomic factors, and age-related cataract: The Singapore Malay eye study

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1029-1035

  Wu, Renyi ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^b,c   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Lamoureux, Ecosse L ^a,b   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Rochtchina, Elena ^c   Tan, Ava G ^c   Wong, Tien Yin ^a,d,e  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATARACT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ILLUMINATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; SLIT LAMP; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77955443379     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.147     Document Type: Article

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